Little Slavutich Fears Fallout,
But Not the Nuclear Kind

SLAVUTICH, Ukraine -- Andrei and Svietlana Bolotnikov couldn't believe their luck back in 1988. They were in their early 20s, freshly married -- and had just gotten their own place.

In those days, ordinary people in the Soviet Union waited years, if not decades to be allocated a cramped flat in a grim high-rise. But not the Bolotnikovs. In one fell swoop, they had just landed a brand-new, spacious apartment here in Slavutich and a...